Thursday, 17 September 2015

Yes of
courseZaid Ra’ad Al Hussain andPablo de Greiff may have heard of terrorism, but terrorism in Sri Lanka
they see through their professional eyes, after all they have a job
to do. They cannot see it
from the eyes of those who witnessed the brutality of terrorism. Therefore they do not see it from
the angle of those who suffered from terrorism. They take reality for myth
and myth for reality.

But they
cannot shut their eyes to the human side
of what it was like suffering under terrorism. For them the period of terrorism
in Sri Lanka is fiction or
like reading books about the killing of the inhabitants of ancient Mexico the Aztec by the Invading Spaniards or burning of
non-believers at stake to make others obedient and accept to be Catholics through fear of death in the hands of the
armies of the Inquisitors.

Above all
for them the terrorists in Sri
Lanka were terrorising Sri Lankans and not
the foreigners. Therefore the
Americans, Norwegians, Germans ,
Japanese and the foreign NGOs met the terorists and sat with the Sri Lanka terrorists to drink
together and eat lobsters in
Kilinochchi. Even American Senators came
to enjoy the hospitality of the terrorists.

It is a
pity Zaid Ra’ad was not there then , because he would have had his share of
lobsters dinning and wining with the terrorists. It became a holiday resort for
the INGOs, the Government representatives of USA,
UK,Norway, Germany , Japan etc.

We appeal
to the47 Representatives of the
governments at the UN HR Council Geneva, listening to stories concocted by the
UNHRC presenting a report prepared on 3000 statements by eyewitnesses, whose
identity strangely is to be kept confidential for thirty years, to understand
the efforts the UN and the big powerful countries are making to hide the truth
and establish falsehood in its place.It
is the Agenda of Navi Pillai that is evident in the UN Report on Sri Lankan war
crimes presented by Zaid Ra’ad the UN High Commissioner.

How can
any one intelligent assume the report presented without giving the names of witnesses as correct ? It is a
report prepared at the behest of the Tamils who have paid people like Callum MacRae the Garbage
Collector by profession, of UKTV Channel4 to make a film of the horrors of
terrorism as those committed by the Armed
Forces. The UN Report presented at the UNHRC in Geneva is absolutely fiction as much as
MacRae’s film.

In realistic democracy
any action taken by a sovereign state against terrorism or an armed
insurgence to stop and eliminate such terrorism or insurgence should be beyond
interference into by any other sovereign state, or even an International
Organisation-the UNO, because such
actions are the inalienable right of a sovereign State in protecting its people
and territory.

In Sri Lanka
an insurgency of Sinhala youth in south was stopped by the then governments with the use of excessive repression, with reported use of torture and
assassination of the insurgents , which was not questioned by the
UN or the International Community. The suppression of that insurgency in the
South ended without question despite torture, and assassination of large
numbers of youth.

Similarly
terrorism that began by a group of Tamil
youth was eliminated militarily with out inflicting torture. But that did not stop there as it was with
the insurgence of the Sinhala youth in the South.

Why was
it so ?

In the case of the terrorism it was an ethnic group
the Tamils who were the terrorists. When
the terrorism was eliminated it should have stopped at that, as it happened in the insurgency in the South.

But the
former became an international issue as the Tamil expatriates living in
different countries in the West who were sympathisers of the terrorists and who
contributed to arm the terrorists were able to make a hue and cry in the
countries in which they were living
using the ethnic issue as the reason for the government to eliminate terrorism militarily.

They made it out that it was not a mere elimination of
terrorism but it was a deliberate
suppression of the right of the Tamils by the Sinhala majority
government. Under normal circumstances the West and even the UN should not have
intervened as what the Government of Sri Lanka had done using the Armed Forces
was to stop terrorism, because Tamil or not terrorism had to be stopped by the government whatever its ethnic
representation , as it is the inalienable right of the Government to do so in
the interest of its people and territory.

The
Governmentof Sri Lanka could not have
stopped an insurgency by the Sinhala youth and allowed the terrorists to
continue their terrorism because they were Tamil. That seems to be the
lopsided “logic” of the West and the UN
Human Rights Council and its Commissioners.

In fact
there is no right what so ever to make the elimination of terrorism in Sri Lanka an issue of violation
of human rights , leave alone making accusation
of the Armed Forces for war crimes.

What happened in Sri
Lanka in the elimination of terrorism by the use of Armed
Forces, is justifiable , compared to what the USA
and its NATO partners did in Iraq
and Libya
, which was not just violation of human rights but complete annihilation of
Nations.

If the
UNHRCouncil in Geneva were to justify its right to exist, and win the
confidence of member states( other than
the real perpetrators of crimes), as a Council that stands for human rights, it
should bring allegations against USA and
its NATO Partners for deliberately planned crimes against humanity.

Elimination
of terrorism in Sri Lanka
was the Government’s inalienable right
and duty as the provider of security to the people assuring them of their
peaceful existence without allowing its enemies, what ever their origin,
ethnicity or formation to destroy or divide
the country.

That is the correct
interpretation the Western Governments should have made to the Tamil
expatriates in their countries who were demanding their intervention in Sri Lanka as the elimination of terrorism
was a discrimination against the Tamil
Community in Sri Lanka.
But it was not the Tamil Community that the Armed Forces were fighting against but
the terrorists.

Instead
of that, now the UNHRCouncil Geneva
working on a resolution by USA
is asking for accountability by the
government of Sri Lanka, presenting
the Darusman Report and the
latest UN Report is a serious injustice against Sri
Lanka a SovereignState which had done
nothing wrong in eliminating terrorism, but doing its duty by its people.

The
terrorism has been eliminated, and it is now, that any one could go around
collecting false eyewitness accounts. If
the conditions that prevailed at the time during the last phase of war
against terrorism could be imagined by even a least educated person he would give no credit at all to the
so called 3000 eyewitness accounts.
People running away from the terrorists
holding them as a human shield, had no time to look back and see what was
happening, as they were running
pell-mell with the only idea of saving their own lives.

Therefore, Mr.Zaid Ra’ad Hussain those 3000 eyewitness
accounts are not worth the paper on
which they have been written. They are false beyond doubt, and besides there is
no acceptable evidence to prove beyond doubt that those eyewitness accounts are
true.

The two
reports- Darusman Report and the UN Report on Sri Lankan war crimes, are not
acceptable for the simple reason that the names of the witnesses who gave evidence on which the reports have
been prepared are being kept
confidential for 30 years.

This is not different from President Bush stepping
over the UN Security Council to declare war against Iraq, showing a false
document prepared by Tony Blair the then
Prime Minister of UK, that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

What
moral right Zaid Ra’ad Al Hussain has as
the UN Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to go on with the Resolution moved by USA, and present the
false UN Report on Sri Lankan war crimes, before calling USA to account for the
crimes it has committed against Iraq and Libya and continues to do in Pakistan
using unmanned Drones.

The UN
Report on Sri Lankan war crimes is an absolutely false document prepared
to satisfy the expatriate Tamil
Community in the West, USA its Western Allies; and India to divide Sri Lanka so
that China and Russian influence in the particular geographic area could be
eliminated and enable the setting up of an
American military base.

If the Prince Zaid Ra’ad Al Hussain has any proud
royal blood in him he should honourably resign from his Office as UN High
Commissioner instead of presenting a false document which has no legal value
as the defendants are not in a position to cross examine the so called 3000 eyewitnesses who had provided statements
the truth of which cannot be
established.

Further
more UNHRCouncil should extend the charges made against the LTTE in the UN
report on Sri Lankan war crimes in the absence of the terrorists, to those who
supported terrorism, for aiding and abetting terrorists in Sri Lanka, as they became
a party to terrorism by collecting funds
for the terrorists, engaging American lawyers to defend terrorism, help and encourage terrorists to carry on
terrorism in Sri Lanka.

Notice
should therefore be issued to Sampanthan and
TNA, Jayalalitha, Karunanidhi and Vaiko
of Tamil Nadu, Fr. Emmanual of the Global Tamil Forum, , Nediavan. And
the following Tamil Organisations

The speech of the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka
Mangala Samaraweera is a complete sell out of the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka of which some made the
supreme sacrifice and others handicapped for life. These Soldiers and their Army Commanders did their
job to protect the people of Sri Lanka, and their
motherland.

The Armed
Forces of Sri Lanka did not deliberately
kill the civilians, and if some died that is collateral damages which is
unavoidable in the elimination of a greater danger. If the Sri Lanka Armed Forces had not
eliminated terrorism when it did ,
terrorism would have continued and many more civilians from all communities in Sri Lanka would have been dying daily at the hand of the terrorists,
their Suicide bombers, grenade lobbers, snipers, claymore bombs set in
busses and in trains and in market
places, and the suffering would have continue, unabated.

Is it
that what the UN, and those who now
accuse the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka for war crimes wanted ?

The
African States, Asia pacific States and the Latin American Carribbean States
present at the sessions of the UNHRCouncil in Geneva
, should take note of what the UN, USA and other Western States are
capable of doing against developing countries who want to be independent of the
repressive countries, and follow a
non-aligned political system . These powerful States are all out to maintain
their global leadership suppressing the rights of the developing Countries.

As it had
been repeated above Sri Lanka is accused unjustly at the call of pro terrorist
Tamil expatriates for the simple reason of eliminating terrorism in Sri Lanka by a group of Tamil
and ending a thirty years of incessant suffering.

The
USAand the West who were against the Chinese and Russian support of Sri Lanka
and its very close relationship with
China which helped Sri Lanka’s very fast
infrastructure development , is making
all efforts to isolate Sri Lanka from China and Russia and bring accusations
against Sri Lanka for war crimes.

It is Sri Lanka
today that is being unjustly accused by the UN System which is now almost part of the USA State Department, to morrow
it will be one of you from the AfricanStates, Asia pacific States or the LatinAmerican-CarribbeanStates. Therefore do not let the rich buy you for their benefit, but try
to defend one of you- that is Sri
Lanka against this International political
terrorism by the Rich Countries of the West against the developing Nations.

Monday, 14 September 2015

I think I
started writing to Lankaweb somewhere in 1997. Lankaweb perhaps did not make me
a writer, but helped me to express my battered thoughts about my country. It was an outlet to my pent up feelings. A space where I could cry out as loud as I
can against those who were perpetrating
injustice, treason, and wrongs against my country.

For once I
feel that we have been let down by my own people who have handed over Sri Lanka to
merchants of driftwood and scrap, to be sold to our enemies. We have been made
helpless on lookers while the enemies of
the nation are bargaining to sell the country that nurtured me into being a
patriot, gave me a culture –a Sinhala Buddhist Culture that I am proud of, my
Island home Sri Lanka is today an object on sale in the hands of ambitious
politicians full of hatred, anger and jealousy, trying to sell it off for their
political gain.

My feelings
for my country are greater than those of the vicious parasites that come to my
country, enjoy freely the hospitality of
the people and condemned the governments,
the Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International , UN Human rights Commissioners, and the UN itself. and the rest
of those human rights activists, who have failed to bring about a just society
in their own countries, but seeking to
put things right in Sri Lanka as if it
belongs to them.

UN has
become a nonentity with the
USA State Department taking over duties
entrusted to the UNO by Charter. Recently Sri Lanka was visited by an
Assistant Secretary of State for
Democracy, Human Rights and Labour.
There are country reports on human rights to the US Congress. So where
does UNO stand ?

UN is
either an appendage to USA Sate Department or a powerless entity dictated to by
the USA.
Normally Member States of the UN are equals.
But USA
is acting as a superpower not caring for the Sovereignty of the member states
of UN.

What is
this rotten world where USA
the worst violator of human life by the use of Drones, declare wars on
countries producing false documents as evidence, and reduce them to rubble by
unconcerned bombing with the use of their
NATO Forces ?

What moral right has USA
to accuse Sri
Lanka and move resolutions in the UNHRC in Geneva
against Sri Lanka’s just cause of elimination of terrorists that
had caused immense damage to the country and human life ?

And no one dares
stop USA ,which is like a
vulgar thug employing killers to eliminate objectors , immoral in every sense
of the word, uncontrollable USA
that change regimes , set up new regimes and dictate the way they should rule
their people. We write but it is just
barking at a speeding caravan.

When Barack
Obama was elected President, we were waving the American flag and lighting crackers, as if an Angel had descended
on earth to eliminate a cruel war mongering USA Government and bring peace and
justice to the world. We thought we were right in that gleeful demonstration after all America
which had been imposing its law on every one else in the world was finally going
to meet with its destiny before the new messenger of the God-Barack Obama.

At last an
uncontrollable USA
is to be reigned in by a black American who knows, we thought, the suffering of
the poor , the unprivileged people and
States, and stop distasteful scandalous American “bossing” of the world. But what happened was the opposite. Barack Obama became another war mongering , regime changing American
pushing for the leadership of America
, carrying on American wars in the world as usual, stopping any undeveloped
country raising its head over economic hardship.

Barack
Obama became an unjust, biased, pompous Black American and the office that was
cast upon him making him the 64th President of America, did nothing
for the betterment of the unprivileged Americans in USA
or the people elsewhere in the world who were looking for justice from USA’s mean “dictatorship”
in the world.

Barack
Obama is privileged to be there in the White House, but the ordinary black
Americans have still not found their just place in the American Society. And that is the America of which Barack Obama is
the President that continues its history of regime change, setting up trade and
economic embargos on nation, indiscriminate use of Drones killing civilians in
its search for terrorists.

It is that
America of Barack Obama which is dividing nations like Sri Lanka accusing the country that
had been menaced with territorial
division and made to suffer for thirty years
by a group of terrorists going on rampage. This America of Obama is now
accusing Sri Lanka for war
crimes, and passes resolution at the UNHRC in Geneva trying to take the Armed Forces before a tribunal for war crimes.

USA is like the Goliath, but who
is David that will stop its wild rampage.
We thought it would be Barack Obama, but now
he has become a part of it?

Where is
this blessed democracy, justice and fair
play, or peaceful coexistence ? Who can we appeal to against injustice that
is being committed by the West seeking
means to maintain its leadership in the world ? USA and the West still continue the
same tactics they carried out during the past in colonising countries. It is a
game they play, as they have no interest in the developing countries or their
people other than the extent to which they could use the countries as pawns in
their checker board of world political strategies.

There were
the times after Independence, that I detested those who ruled my country.
But yet with all their wrongs they were after all my people and I could understand them better than
those from the West that knows nothing about my people or the culture of my country which they always tried to
treat as insignificant. They chose from the countries only those that did not
represent the real people or those that
represent the real culture of the
country, to give them the reins of the destinies of the people fooled by their
invented methods to make unpopular the popular local regimes , and make popular
the unpopular local politicians.

The
UNP could never think without taking
examples from the West. UNP was so
entrenched in the British culture and their way of thinking it had no vision of
development of Sri Lanka that had been nicknamed Ceylon
for colonial convenience, beaten, trodden, its pride and values squeezed
out, wronged and changed in every way possible during 500 or more years of
colonization.

The Sinhala
people I am ashamed to say had learnt
from the west to treat my country
as a country without a proper
religion, a culture, a language or a
dress. They have no gratitude, they easily forget the past for a carrot of development and prosperity that any one would dangle before them. They have
become so pathetically non-Sinhala they do not think twice before they would
cut the throat of one of their own for a political, financial or any lesser
benefit.

The Independence itself began
with denying the deserved his place. Sir
Baron Jayatilleke was tricked to accept a diplomatic post in India, for
D.S.Senanayake to become the Prime Minister.
That was the beginning of the UNP reign, backstabbing cut throat
tactics. What did UNP give to Sri
Lanka other than a set of boot lickers
wearing the Englishman’s coat and trousers, speaking their language,
worshipping their gods, and trying pathetically to behave like them.

It was UNP
now acclaimed by the Tamils that passed the Citizenship act in 1948 to
disenfranchise the Tamil plantation workers of Indian descent.

When
D.S.Senanayake died, his son Dudley became the
Prime Minister, he was a political misfit in the UNP Clan. Having had to reduce
the rice ration to the dictates of the aid
providers of the West UNP had to face a
people’s uprising- Hartal, organised by
the LSSP and the Left wing political parties, in 1953, and good man Dudley
resigned, allowing his uncle Kotalawala to become the Prime Minister.

The UNP did
nothing significant either under Dudley nor under John Kotalawela. Under John Kotalawala
the Catholics became an important
political support for UNP.

The people
had enough of capitalist UNP and were awaiting for a different political
movements to displace UNP; allowing them to breath the air of real Independence. The man the
people sought to replace the UNP with a
different and a more acceptable
political movement was SWRD Bandaranaike with his SLFP.

Bandaranaike
changed the path Sri Lanka
was taking under the leadership of a non visionary hackneyed upper class black
sahibs of the UNP following a foreign policy dictated by the British. SWRD changed drastically the existing UNP’s withered government policies. He made
Sri Lanka an Independent nation making ordinary people of Sri Lanka a part of
the political system, allowing them to breath the air of freedom in a new
independence away from the Black Sahib
culture of the UNP.

It is towards this self same British, American
and Western influence of the fifties that Ranil Wickramasinghe is even today
trying to drag back our Sri
Lanka under the guise of a new political
culture.

During the
short time that he lived after 1956 SWRD brought the left together and brought
back the battered, shunned , neglected
and decadent Sinhala Buddhist Culture to the fore. The Sinhala language that was the language
the UNP hierarchy used to converse with the kitchen staff and other manual
workers; was made the National language,
and the old Sinhala flag brought down by the British to hoist their own Union
Jack , was recognised as the National flag of Independent Sri Lanka. SWRD said addressing the UN General Assembly
in November,1956:

“This is an
age when we have to live and let live, when we cannot afford to hate each other
so much that we are prepared to sacrifice all mankind in the name of peace or
for some other reason. We cannot afford to do that today. Within the limits of
honour, of course, and those principles which we hold dear, we have to live and
let live. That is the philosophy behind the doctrine of co-existence. We in Asia do not hate anybody. We want to be friends with all.
We have to build up a new society for ourselves; one, as I have said, which
best suits the genius of our country. …………That is why we do not range ourselves
on the side of this power-bloc or that power bloc. This is the philosophy of
neutralism. ……”

He set up
an independent foreign policy pulling Sri Lanka away from the, “ British
ruler –colony” complex. His vision of an Independent Nation like any other in
the world was thwarted first by the racist Tamil Nationalists, and then by the
local pro British politicians-the UNP.

After
the assassination of SWRD, Mrs.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the Prime Minister making history as the first
woman Prime Minister of the World. She
turned out to be a remarkable politician
despite having been in the shadow of her brilliant husband. She was able to
introduce a new facet to Sri
Lanka foreign policy as changed by her
husband.

Her
nationalization of Petroleum companies earned her the disapproval of the USA and UK
which resorted to their pseudo democratic
brilliance of imposing trade and
economic embargo by cutting aid to Sri Lanka. It made her get politically closer to China and Soviet Union
out of which came the non-align movement of which she became the Chairman. She
had her share of problems from the Tamils.

She
is remembered for getting back the real
identity of the country as Sri
Lanka casting away the nickname “Ceylo” given to it by the colonialists.

These
are things that never come into the cramped minds of the UNP leaders who cannot
think beyond certain limits. The UNP as USA, has a one track mind and as usual accused Ms. Sirimavo Bandaranayaike for corruption.
Nevertheless Sirimavo Bandaranayake took
forward the country from where her
husband was stopped by an assassin.
After her defeat in the elections, UNP
came back to power with Dudley Senanayake as the Prime Minister. When ever the UNP relying on the USA and the West came to power manifestly Sri Lanka takes a few steps back
from progressive political advancement.

In
1978 J.R.Jayawardhana of the UNP became the President of Sri Lanka. His government was far from being democratic.
Today, his nephew Ranil
Wickramasinghe brings back memories of
the UNP’s repressive government under
JR.

JR
took deliberate actions against his opponents .
He saw to it that Sirimavo Bandaranaike would not come back into
politics by taking away her civic rights. You
see the repetition of this in Ranil Wickramasinghe doing all that he can to
keep Mahinda Rajapakse away from politics.

Even
Buddhist Priests and BuddhistTemples did not escape JR’s
wrath. JR Jayawardhane’s rival Presidential candidate Hector Kobbakaduwa went through almost the same
political difficulties Mahinda Rajapakse is made to suffer by Ranil
Wickramasinghe.

Perhaps
Madoluwawe Sobhitha thero has not forgotton
what happened to Professor Sarathchandra
at Peradeniy, when he was beaten and pushed to a drain by the thugs sent
by JR’s supporters, and barb- wired the Getambe Rajopavanaramaya, to teach a
lesson to the High Priest who supported Kobbekaduwa.

“Hector
Kobbekaduwa, had to face a very difficult period after the Presidential
elections. …………….Hector Kobbekaduwa was taken to the 4th Floor on 64 occasions
for questioning by the CID. But, the J. R. Jayawardene Government was unable to
prove any of the allegations.

Even at
the last stages of his political career, Hector Kobbekaduwa was deprived of his
right to use his ballot by the United National Party Government at the 1982
Referendum as his vote was used by another.”

http://archives.dailynews.lk/2006/09/16/fea02.asp

Like Uncle JR like nephew
Ranil. Fortunately for Sri Lanka Ranil
Wickramasinghe is not the President .

JR
Jayawardhane was an unconditional admirer and a loyal friend of America. He thought he was politically strong with the
backing of the powerful USA. But in 1978 when the Indian Air Force
trespassed into Sri Lanka air space to drop dry ration to the terrorist
held in siege in Jaffna by the Sri Lanka
Armed Forces, and forced JR to enter in to the Indo Sri Lanka pact
demanding him to introduce the 13A prepared by India in to the Constitution, JR
had none to appeal for helpas USA would not
interfere and burn its fingers antagonising India.

So
Ranil Wickramasinghe is better advised to be aware of his American and Western friends , re-dressed and
introduced anew by Mangala Samaraweera.

It
is better he thinks twice be fore he
considers himself a skilful politicians with the backing of the USA and the
West. USA and the West as
they did to JR, will drop him as well
like a hot brick if he finds himself in a political fix with India, which is not unlikely, unless he becomes
a blind stooge of India.

Maithripala
Sirisena’s loud boast that his government will go the full term and no one will
be able to topple will be an empty boast when things begin to change. JR also
thought as much, but he too learnt his
lesson the hard way.

JR
Jayawardhane, who took over the reigns of government from Mrs.Bandaranaike a
very capable politician who made Sri Lanka proud, came beating drums and
blowing trumpets like his nephew is
doing at present, promising to rid Sri Lanka of all its ills brought about by
SWRD and then his wife Sirimavo.

But
he lost to Rajive Gandhi, a young politician who did not have the experience of
JR who some called the “old fox” JR gave into Rajive without a whimper signed
the Indo Sri Lanka Pact, accommodated the Indian PKFforces, accepted a politically crippling 13A to the
Sri Lanka Constitution and made worse the situation Sri Lanka was in added to
an unabated terrorism.

His successor the other UNP
President R.Premadasa was no better. Premadasa
even armed the terrorists against the Indian PKF. Killed innumerable numbers of
Sinhala youth who foolishly took up arms to seize political power. The UNP
after Mrs. Bandranayake proved they were unable to solve the problems of Sri Lanka and
take the country forward leave alone develop it. Mahaweli Project and Gamudawa did very little
or nothing at all to Sri
Lanka by way of development.

A good man President D.B.Jayatunga who did not make an impact in the political history of Sri Lanka

The
UNP experience showed the people that Sri Lanka is in need of a
leader who could really solve the
problems of the people, eliminate terrorism, develop the country from the
intolerable condition to which it had been put by the previous incapable UNP Presidents,
who had neither the ideas nor the vision to think saving Sri Lanka from terrorism , ameliorate
the living conditions of the people and
change the situation in Sri Lanka.

It was then that the people sinking
in the deluge of unsoluble problems with
the terrorists in the north, insurgents in the south, strangled by a
mismanaged economy, ready to hang onto any straw to save
themselves voted to put Chandrika
Kumaratunga into power at the elections
of 1994 . Chandrika had the sympathy
votes of the people as she was widowed
by the assassination of her husband, and
was a mother of two young children, and
above all she was the daughter of SWRD and Sirimavo the dearly loved leaders of
the people.

Though
she could have done much as she was young
and active, but the accumulated
problems in Sri lanka was too much to
handle. She was ambitious, pretentious,
and thought she had the backing of the people, but that was not sufficient to
put Sri Lanka
back on an even keel to make it safe to sail on the troubled waters of
politics.

She
thought of pacifying the terrorists she knew nothing about, and having failed thought
of a military solution. She selected the wrong people to handle the terrorist
problem. She brought in Eric Solheim to mediate between the government and the
terrorists. Solheim became an agent of the terrorists, and handled the
terrorist problem in the interest of the terrorist helping the terrorists to become militarily more powerful
than the Armed Forces of the government . The Embassy of Norway imported sophisticate
telecommunication material for the
terrorists using its diplomatic priviledges.
Bradman Weerakone allowed the material to be transported to terrorist
Controlled area.

Then
came the tsunami adding more to the already existing problem. The terrorists
wanted no baby sitter and wanted to assassinate Chandrika but succeeded only
blinding her in one eye. Her mother
Sirimavo then old and sickly would still have been a better President than her
daughter Chandrika. Chandrika messed up the
situation further with enormous sums of money that came as aid to reconstruct
areas damaged by the tsunami and the
large numbers of NGOs that descended who became a law unto themselves.
Chandrika handled terrorism badly and so with the distribution of tsunami Funds.

To
make matters worse, she was forced to dissolve the Parliament due to the
unreliable back stabbing Rauff Hakeem leaving
her government with his seven followers. The general elections that
followed put into power the UNP with
Ranil Wickramasinghe, adding more to the miseries of Chandrika-the
President. Ranil Wickramasinghe was now
her Prime Minister. This ambitious man
who always puts himself before even the country was in no mood to take orders
from Chandrika the woman President.

Ranil
Wickramasinghe completely ignored Chandrika
as President, and wanted to take credit for settling the problem of terrorism.
He got Eric Solheim to mediate to start
peace negotiations with the terrorist. Eric Solheim the traitor who was waiting
for his chance prepared the CFA along
with Prabhakaran without consulting the President Or the Prime Minister and got
Ranil Wickramasinghe to sign the
agreement.

Ranil Wickramasinghe who thinks
that he knows every thing signed the CFA perhaps even without reading, because
on signing it he gave the control of parts of the North to the terrorists
forfeiting the right of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces or the Police to enter into
the areas controlled by the terrorists. Finally when Ranil was enjoying himself
dining and wining in style with George
Bush in USA Chandrika sacked three
Ministers of Ranil’s Cabinet and took
over the Ministries herself, thus ending the unholy alliance with the UNP.

Hence what we see today with Ranil
Wickramasinghe forming a coalition government
with Maithripala Sirisena as President is a repetition of what had
already happened before, when ever UNP was ruling the country.

There is nothing for the President
Sirisena or Prime Minister Ranil to be
exceptionally happy about. The unholy alliance will topple over by itself
without any body having to take a hand to topple it. Nothing is permanent , every thing is impermanent
and so is Ranil Wickramasinghe-Sirisena combination.

It has not been said enough that it was the great fortune of Sri Lanka to have elected Mahinda Rajapakse as
the President of Sri Lanka.
Mahinda Rajapakse, not only eliminated terrorism, (which the UNP Presidents
beginning from JR Jayawardhana miserably
faile to do , and Chandrika got one eye blinded
without getting anywhere near even trying to end terrorism), but also shortly after the defeat of
terrorism Mahinda Rajapakse developed the country raising it from a developing
country to a middle income State.

That was the great achievement of Mahind Rajapakse what ever his antagonists make him out to be
, and none of them including Maithripala Sirisena, Ranil Wickrmasinghe, Chandrika
Kumaratunga or Mangala Samaraweera will ever be able to do. None of them also will ever be even equal to him let
along being greater than him.

The mess that we see today will continue, and
it could be re-established and put
things back in right order only when this unholy honeymoon of UNP, JVP,TNA,JHU is
over, by the return of Mahinda
Rajapakse or some one equal to him from perhaps the UPFA, but never from the
UNP.

The UNP spells disaster both then and now. Sri
Lanka has no place for USA or Western shaped capitalism of the UNP. SWRD
Bandaranaike once said that the river of socialism cannot be made to flow
backwards as it will always flow
downwards.

And that is the only hope we have while the UNP
and its crowded alliance are building dams to make the river of socialism flow backwards.

To-days
political situation in Sri
Lanka is utterly debased, brutal beyond
comprehension, with so much of hatred , jealousy and revenge in minds of those
in power . There are two Buddhist monks in the
ruling clan of good governance, they are also a part of this malicious
destructive political leadership. They could perhaps tell the trio Sirisena-Ranil-Chandrika how to run the country like human beings, without giving
into animal instincts.

Sirisena
wants to see the end of Rajapakses and so are Chandrika and Ranil. They have no time to rule the country. Never
in the world’s political history could be found a politically degenerated trio trying to rule with so much of hatred
towards one man who saved Sri
Lanka and developed it without thinking of
taking revenge from his political foe.
The vicious trio could be compared to Caligula. in the absence of any
one else.

This is the
first time we have the likes of them in Sri Lanka politics. They are actually running a police state and
not doing politics to develop the country and help the people live peacefully in an environment of universal love, without hatred, fear and
uncertainty.

Monday, 7 September 2015

It is
interesting to investigate what this New Political Culture the Prime Minister
Ranil Wickramasinghe keeps talking
about.. From what one has observed so
far it is a dictatorship of the President , a police state of the lowest sort
with an extended dictatorship of the
Prime Minister within a frame work of a
damaged democracy . An experiment
perhaps of a new political culture still
in a very infantile state and lets hope it will not look to Videla’s Argentine,
Salazar’s Portugal or Pinochet’s Chile.

The change
of political culture began in January, 2015, with the appointment of Ranil
Wickramasinghe unconstitutionally, as
there was already a Prime Minister and a Cabinet. After the swearing in of the PM in
January,2015, he immediately transferred the democratic Republic of Sri Lanka
into a police state with a special police force taking orders from the Prime
Minister himself to catch thieves, to
make real their hallucinations of thieves of the previous government in every project, every profit
making Companies, and even in every hotel in Dubai, and banks in Seychelles.

The Foreign
Minister rolled his big eyes trying to get all foreign experts to get the stolen loot hidden in
various places by the former President, having accused him of having stolen an enormous sum of money equal to many times the income of the Government of Sri Lanka. The new
political culture is not a service for the people , but revenge against the
former President Mahinda Rajapakse. All hands to the fore to catch thieves.

There was
also an evident don’t care attitude, appointing as Finance Minister against
whom a case for money laundering was pending, and strangely the presentation of
the Budget was to be on the very day he had to appear in court !!

Weeks later
the most scandalous bond issue in the
history of the Sri Lanka Banking System took place , and in keeping with the
“new political culture” all that was hushed up and the falling “dirt” swept under the state carpet.

There was
again a display of the comedy of reappointing an impeached Chief Justice,
making her retire and appointing another kicking out unceremoniously the Chief
Justice in place. That is part of the new political culture a unique system in
the world.

The new
rulers chucked out our greatest friends China and Russia who defended us in the
Security Council against USA and West, and have welcomed our enemies USA and the West who presented
resolutions after resolutions in the UNHRC in Geneva preparing to take our armed
forces to be taken before a tribunal accused for war crime, and India that
seconded the USA Resolutions as Sri Lanka’s new friends, to take over the
countries development from China.

Ranil
Wickramasinghe’s UNP Ministers each had to catch at least one thief of the
previous regime. Even Company Directors who held office during the previous government were not spared. They accused various people and the FCID of the
Prime Minister took them for questioning and they never came back
, as they were immediately arrested and put in remand. There was the JVP
marching proudly with files in hand to be
handed over to the Bribery Commission. JVP was a part of the new political culture of Ranil
Wickramasinghe.

Another
facet of the new political culture was
seen after the dissolution of the Parliament. Maithripala Sirisena actively contributing to shape the new political
culture, proposed by his super intelligent
Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe. But Maithripala Sirisena’s
behaviour was some thing beyond the recitation of the daily Yahapalanaya Manthra, ordinary democracy
as we know, or even outside the corrupt
regime they had vouched to replace.

There is no
democratic country in the world where a President elected by the people does what
Maithripala did from the day he was sworn in as the Presidenof Sri Lanka.

The
democratic norm is that a President elected by the people belongs to all the
people without discrimination against the political parties they belong to ,
the religion they profess or the language they speak. But in the new political culture being shaped
by the present Yahapalanaya government of Ranil Wickramasinghe under the
Supervision of Maithripala Sirisena all those accepted political and moral norms have been ripped away. It is a new political
culture.

The new
political culture apart, it is a government set up to vilify the previous
government, and take as much revenge as
possible from the deposed President
Mahinda Rajapakse his family, friends and those connected distantly or those who pay respect to him for the life
they owe to him, who eliminated
terrorism.

Maithripala
Sirisena the President walked the length and
width of the country, saying to the people that if he had lost the
election he and his family would have been six feet under ground. That was a
most ridiculous, vicious, and unintelligent thing to have been said by a man who occupies the most
respected position of the country. Stabbing
a man’s back, to gain power is another thing , but to accuse him for what he is
incapable of doing is base, low, distasteful
and foetid.

The attempt
was of course to bring disrepute and make unpopular Mahinda Rajapakse, making
people believe that he is a criminal not worthy of trust. Coming from a man who
had known Mahinda Rajapakse for more than 47, years he may have thought that
people would believe that the
Batalanda torturers are angels of sort under the new political culture,
compared to Mahinda Rajapakse.

Fortunately
the people –the Sinhala Buddhists would say that Mahinda Rajapakse is a man who
will not harm even an insect let along burying people six feet under ground.
The other woman Chandrika who is not worthy of being called a one time
President of Sri Lanka speaks as if she is under the influence of liquor. No wise person would go abroad and condemned
a Presidents who had been elected by the
people of Sri Lanka as a killer of Civilians who ran a police
state.

Chandrika
was incapable of stopping the terrorists even after she offered Prabhakaran north
of Sri Lanka
to be ruled by him for ten years, and therefore she is responsible to the very
“hilt” for all those deaths of terrorists, soldiers and civilians from 19 August 1994 to 19 May, 2009. She
cannot escape from that blame by putting it on Mahinda Rajapakse who saved Sri Lanka
from terrorism.

Mahinda
Rajapakse is unique. He is a “man for all seasons,” how ever much the authors
of the New Political Culture, try to portray him differently denigrating him,
without thinking for an instance that, none of them are able to hold a candle
to former President Mahinda Rajapakse.

People of Sri Lanka refuse to listen to Chandrika , and no
one will trust her in Sri
Lanka except Sirisena-Ranil duo. Therefore
she is gleeful she has a foreign audience who knows nothing about her or her
doings as the President of Sri Lanka, and may have not even read the book
“Queen of Thieves” by Victor Ivan. She is unfortunately a part of Ranil
Wickramasinghe’s new political culture.

This
Yahapalanaya Government is of course unlike any other government of the world,
and what it is going to be with its sworn new political culture is any ones guess. Of what we have experienced since 8th January, 2015, it is not
encouraging. It became worse when the
Parliamentary elections were to be held on the 17 August,2015.

At that election the former President was
contesting to become the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. It was an ordinary
Parliamentary election. The difference
was that the former President was
contesting as an ordinary citizen but sponsored by some political parties to make him the Prime Minister if the UPFA wins
with a majority number of seats. Mahinda
Rajapakse is very popular despite his defeat at the Presidential election of
the 8th January,2015, and all the “ who done it” stuff with which
the yahapalanaya clique was trying to hoodwink the people.

Maithripala Sirisena the President was afraid
that Mahinda would win and claim to be the Prime Minister. ( there was a
question of an inferiority complex).Hence, under instruction from Ranil and Chandrika or on his own, he descended from his Constitutional and
Democratic call to be independent and impartial in Parliamentary elections, to make public announcement that he would not
name Mahinda Rajapakse the Prime
Minister even if he were to win the election. Thereafter he started an election
campaign of his own against Mahinda Rajapakse.

He announced that there are number of persons
in the SLFP who deserve to be named as
Prime Minister and therefore he will not name Mahinda Rajapakse the Prime
Minister even if he wins the
election.

These were all happening just a week or two
before the election. These were
irregularities under the election law. But the Elections Commissioner had not
proscribed the President’s actions. Then
the President sent an open letter of several pages to the former
President Mahinda Rajapakse making lot of accusations and reiterating that he
would not be made the Prime Minister as there are others suitable to be
considered for the office of Prime
Minister.

Mahinda Rajapakse sent a short reply saying
that when he lost the Presidential election he bowed to the wishes of the
people and left peacefully; and that it is up to the President to bow to the
wish of the people if he were to be
elected with a majority number of seats for the UPFA.

Then the President Sirisena just a day or two
before the election sacked the General Secretaries of both SLFP and the UPFA
and replaced them with two of his henchmen.

These are all the part of the new political
culture. There was absolutely no rhyme or reason for these show of
vengeance against one man, who allowed people to live peacefully and breath
freedom in a country without terrorism.

The result was the failure of the Party that
sponsored the former President as a Prime Ministerial candidate failed to get
the required number of seats.

But now the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe
who promises a new political culture and new country in 60 months has taken over from the President Sirisena to carry on the
campaign of vengeance against the former
President Mahinda Rajapakse. Corruption
charges against the former President, his family and those connected to him
closely or distantly continue with a promise to make the Prime Ministers police
force FCID a permanent and a legal feature.

The Prime Minister has become a sort of a
Dictator, rising to an Order in the Parliament to stop a Parliamentarian making
his maiden speech from speaking about arms and armaments in the Parliament. Of course that can be understood , as when
Ranil Wickramasinghe was the Prime Minister under Chandrika Bandar anaike did not even present the CFA to the
Parliament, probably because he did not want to speak about terrorism and arms
and ammunitions in the House.

Ranil Wickramasinghe did not stop at that he also
refused to recognise MPs Gamanpila and Weerawansa as leaders of political
parties and denied them the priviledges that follow such recognition and even
denied them the front seats allocated to them in the Parliament.

That is the New Political Culture that is being
set up in Sri Lanka
and it would be interesting to know what more is to follow.

Thursday, 3 September 2015

When you
have wept your grief, and smothered the last drop of tears you are completely exhausted,
lifeless, and nothing seems to matter.

What is
left is only the slain body of once a
proud nation in a bier, four terrorists in their fatigues
stand silently on guard at the four corners with their hands resting on
the steel rod of the T56 assault rifles kept standing before them. The red flag
with tiger head in a circle of bullets covers half of the bier. Some one had
thrown on the ground under the bier a half burnt lion flag. On the bier is a
black hand glove of the Queen Elizabeth which she took off to shake the hand of
a leader who is also responsible for the slain body lying in state inside the
bier.

The people
sad and grief stricken were walking away.
They knew that on the third day the fallen nation will not rise again
with the glory that it was before the 8th January, 2015. They were
returning to their homes to meditate and
pray . Sadly they pursued their evening walk talking over the events that led
to the unredeemable loss. Never had they been
so utterly disheartened hopeless and faithless, they were walking in the
shadow of the once victorious , peaceful and a fast developing nation, today
lying in a bier.

Their grief
could not be restrained and they wept as they walked on . They went together into their homes and
closed and fastened doors knowing that the fate of the nation might any time be
theirs . ( with apology to Luke 24-The
Walk to Emmaus)

At the bier
readied for state funeral.

There are
Catholic Bishops with their immaculate white gowns with the purple belt,
Mullahs with their long beards, and half naked Hindu pujaris in attendance. The once fluttering lion flags are no where
to be seen. What does it matter now .

It is the
TNA leader Sampathan the leader of the Opposition in charge of the burial ceremony. It is C.V.Wineswaran the Chief Minister of
NPC who is to deliver the funeral oration. Rauf Hakeem is waiting to take away
whatever would be left when every thing is over

An
important delegation with the USA State Secretary John Kerry representing the
President of USA along with Biswal and Robert O’Blake and many others occupy the front seats. The Sri Lanka leaders are in the second row, Maitripala Sirisena behind Biswal, Ranil behind Robert O’Blake and Mangala Samaraweera behind
John Kerry.

Also
occupying the front most seats are Modi Indian Prime Minister , Jayalalitha
seated next to him along side Hillary Clinton. There is also David Cameron with
the flag with which he flagged off the LTTE
torch relay to Geneva demanding awareness of
genocide in Sri Lanka
which started from 10 Downing
Street. The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen
Harper has still not turned up. David
Miliband and Bernard Kouchner are expected.

However, the
people are not expected at the burial ceremony. Chandrika , Champika, Sobhita
Thero and Ratana Thero will come back when every thing is over hoping to resuscitate
a phantom Nation.

At the
funeral oration Wigneswaran, will not speak of democracy or separatism because they have got what they wanted.

Those
who voted for a change perhaps did not
expect this sudden turn of events. They still do
not know that it would be worse than it was when terrorism was assailing the nation. But it is
that Nation that survived the terrorist attacks that is now being prepared for
a state funeral. Bugles are already playing the Last Post.

Adieu Sri
Lanka I have no more tears to shed ………..May you be reborn again with the glory that was yours before.